Skateboarding between Subculture and Olympic Games

Schwier, Jürgen

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“…This paper builds on such work, showing how skateboarding operates outside of the neoliberalised format of sport more generally. Indeed, from its beginnings, skateboarding has been rooted in ideas of self-expression and authentic identity formation through repeated bodily practice (Abulhawa, 2020) that have now grown to produce a shared stock of knowledge that unites a like-minded community (Schwier, 2019). As Borden (2019, p. 3) writes, 'within skateboarding's distinctive outlook we find that the most valued of life attributes are not fame, wealth, winning or status but are-or should be-participation, expression, satisfaction and community'.…”

Section: Resilience and Alternative Futures Within Skateboardingmentioning

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“…It is through this multi-scalar community building that all manner of skateboarders work together to create skate culture and circulate the values that characterise its resilience (Schwier, 2019). Skateboarding can therefore provide enclaves of alternative governance and democracy, showing how despite neoliberal sport's governmental tendencies and attempts to incorporate skateboarding into this, people can still come together to generate ground-up and community driven forms of governance and existence, refusing to completely accept market logic as a taken-for-granted part of everyday life.…”

Section: Resilience and Alternative Futures Within Skateboardingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Community and communicative construction play a key role here, since skateboarders frequently instruct each other in skateboarding's core principles and values (Schwier, 2019). On one hand, skate communities can be place based, referring to identification through the existence of a specific place (McDowell, 1994).…”

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Challenging neoliberal sport: Skateboarding as a resilient cultural practice

Gazeres

2022

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This paper argues that research on sporting cultures can illuminate wider debates over the power relations materialised through the fields of cultural practice. Specifically, as neoliberalism has spread across the social realm, sport has come to mirror and reinforce its logics, placing emphasis on individualised competition and ultimately contributing to the reproduction of neoliberal hegemony more generally. Within this, however, alternative movement-based practices have emerged that show resilience to this process, offering alternative futures and new ways of being that are not organised by injustice. This paper examines the case of resilience within skateboarding, a cultural practice that champions participation and community values despite its ongoing incorporation into the neoliberal sport system.

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Gazeres

2022

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“…These can include flouting the rules within a skateboarding contest or occupying space in a downtown business district, potentially damaging property with their boards. In addition, many researchers point out and fixate on a contradiction at the core of skateboard culture, namely, the rift between transgression and commercialism, between free expression and professionalization (Cantin-Brault, 2015; Kilberth, 2019; Schafer, 2019; Schwier, 2019). Put another way, this is a debate about selling out or remaining “core” and authentic (Dupont, 2020).…”

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The Social Mediatization of Lifestyle Sport: Continuity and Novelty in the Online Skate Subculture

Nichols

2022

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Based on mediatization theory, this article tracks how skateboarders experience and negotiate the entry of social media into their subculture. Building on existing scholarship, I show how social media and digital devices retain existing values within the culture while simultaneously introducing new challenges. To illustrate the phenomena of continuity and novelty in the online skate subculture, I analyze two case studies pertaining to YouTube. The first is a textual analysis of a typical skate video. Released on YouTube in 2020, the BE FREE video exhibits neoliberal, apolitical, masculine, and individualist values that go back decades in skate culture. The second case involves one of the most popular hubs of online skateboarding today: The Berrics YouTube channel, which claims 1.3 million subscribers and over 4,500 individual videos. I show how The Berrics maintains a one-dimensional positivity through its posts and interactions with fans, and I argue that it is still experimenting with the handling of negative feedback that participatory media allow. I also provide a brief history of skateboard media to properly contextualize these case studies.

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The Film Kids 25 Years On: A Qualitative Study of Rape Culture and Representations of Sexual Violence in Skateboarding

Willing

2020

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This article examines the 1995 fictional feature film Kids, which locates its story in skateboarding culture. The film reached its 25th anniversary in 2020; it is directed by Larry Clark and written by Harmony Korine, both recognizable figures in skateboarding, and it featured a cast of youth from the New York skateboarding scene. The research analyses narrative content that depicts sexual coercion and rape. Contemporary social and feminist theories of sexual violence, rape culture and media on the film inform the analysis. The discussion points to how the characters that the boys play embody forms of hegemonic masculinity, pointing to the social and cultural dimensions of male power and how sexual violence can be an element of that. The article also presents an occasion to reflect on such issues in skateboarding culture more widely, with emerging insights that can be useful to studies of other male-dominated youth cultures, lifestyle sports and subcultures.

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Skateboarding between Subculture and Olympic Games

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Challenging neoliberal sport: Skateboarding as a resilient cultural practice

Challenging neoliberal sport: Skateboarding as a resilient cultural practice

The Social Mediatization of Lifestyle Sport: Continuity and Novelty in the Online Skate Subculture

The Film Kids 25 Years On: A Qualitative Study of Rape Culture and Representations of Sexual Violence in Skateboarding

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